Wake Up With Weetabix........ (Weetabix The Whole Grain Cereal)

Member Name: bubbles12

Product:	Weetabix The Whole Grain Cereal
Date:	21/05/08 (529 review reads)
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Advantages: Great strat to the day, just add fruit.

Disadvantages: can be bland eaten on there own

I have eating Weetabix as my breakfast cereal for years, longer than I car to remember. They are not only very filling but also full of good nutrition. These were never all that appealing as a child and they had to be soaked in sugar and milk, for them to have a nice taste. Now I am older I can now eat them without sugar and they taste just fine.

PACKAGING & CEREALS

When you first see the weetabix cereals they look very bland and un interesting. They are brown in colour and consists or lots of little packed oaty bits. All of the oats and goodness are packed together in to a shape that looks similar to a bar of soap.

The box is nicest looking part of the whole cereal, it is bright neon yellow with the weetabix branding right across it, Dependent on the size of box you buy the size of the box can vary. I usually buy the 48 bar box, this is roughly 12inches high and 9inches wide.

WHY EAT BREAKFAST

Well breakfast is the most important meal of the day, not only doe's it get you off to a good start but it also triggers your metabolism, which then enables you body to digest the food and break down the fat.

I didn't eat breakfast in the morning for years, but when I joined weight watchers I realized this was very important to eat breakfast and your other two main meals a day. If you don't eat your body thinks you are starving it and therefore you gain weight.

THINGS TO EAT WITH WEETABIX

I personally still find this cereal very bland, but I have learned to work with it, I have two weetabix blocks and skimmed milk, yes skimmed milk is awful at the best of times let alone on a very boring cereal that tastes of nothing. So I had to come up with something or change the cereal.

I have started to eat my cereals with fresh fruit like, strawberries, bananas, raisins, apples anything really that disguises the awful taste. I sometime mix in natural yoghurt if I fancy that extra boost and I have to say this tastes fantastic.

So I can eat a full healthy breakfast and one or two of my five a day, because on occasions I do struggle to eat all five. It is and added bonus as this breakfast only costs me 2 and half points on the weight watch diet, 3 and half if I use the yoghurt.

There are of course many other variations one could try...............honey instead of fruit for instance. If you are stuck in the greasy breakfast routine make a little effort and do yourself some good by changing your routine just a little. Have the fry up on a weekend and the Weetabix during the week and you like me WILL see the difference and feel much better to for it.
BUYING WEETABIX

You can buy Weetabix almost anywhere, tesco's asda or any other convenience shop, and the prices do vary a lot.

A box of 12 Weetabix costs 1.19 at both tesco and asda, but you can expect to pay more else where.

A box of 24 will set you back 1.78 at both shops.

A box or 48 is 3.24 and lastly the family size box of 72's will cost 4.38. These are the prices for both Tesco and Asda.

MY OPINION

I don't really like the taste of these, with the non fat milk I drink but I am sure if I tried semi skimmed it would improve as my milk is tasteless.

I love getting up in the morning and concocting my breakfast, it is a lot more interesting eating is with fruit or yoghurts, and I have to say I now get to work on a high and it keeps me going until tea time. Yes I do eat a nutria grain bar at lunch as I need to try to eat my three meals.

Yes it sounds fattening but it really isn't I have lost loads of weight, although I seem to be eating more. I think it is because in now understand that the body needs the full three meals.

Summary: a healthy breakfast, to keep you going untill lunch.